They actually do that quite oftent. They pay the voice actors for their part, find out later that they liked somone better, then scrap the first guy and use the new one. So its not like the first guy gets ****** over money wise.

I think it's more along the lines of actively avoided.
If they don't think he fits the character, he shouldn't voice the character. Same with other similar things.

They tried listening to fans when it came to design once
What happened was that Worgen Females got a quickly scrapped together mesh that doesn't fit the modified draenei skeleton it was slapped onto, along with ****** textures.
And chihuaha face

That's not because they listened to the fans you mongoloid. NO ONE is happy with that. The fans said 'fix worgen up' and Blizzard pulled down their pants and **** on the Worgen model. No one asked for ****, we wanted them fixed up. But we got a steaming pile.

Doomfist's actions are over the top, but his personality is far from it.
He's clearly written to be a more tactful, sinister character, hence him being one of the big wigs of Talon. Terry Crews can do some degree of intimidating, but it just doesn't fit what they intended. It's preferable that he plays someone much more intentionally designed for the character that people expect Terry to voice, rather than completely change one on sheer impulse of the fans.

No, opportunity preserved.
Doomfist is simply too much of a doom 'n' gloom character for Terry Crews' general performance. If anything, he should play a more comedy-oriented character, and I think that's what Blizzard intends from the fact they invited him over to one of their studios.

I remember hearing Terry's audition voice lines for Doomfist and thinking "Man, this is just a complete waste of his potential". I'm glad Blizzard didn't cave into pressure from fans to change a character they already had in mind from earlier on, and will even be super happy if they cast Terry Crews to a proper character.

It was a meme. Terry Crews was never going to voice doomfist. It was all a joke that everyone took so far that people started thinking it was real, much like everything that happens on the internet. It didn't help that blizzblazz was in on the joke, and they fed the fire, but that's all it ever was.

Awhile back Blizzard re-voiced all the characters. before release, mind you. The reason for this was to give them more native accents. Doomfist is Nigerian, Terry is Amerian and probably wouldn't do the voice justice, among other reasons than memes.

There's ... so much frustration in me after all this. Gah. I just hope I can get over it soon. I don't want to be all angsty and grumpy and entitled with the Blizz team. They always work hard and give us good ****, but ... come on.

Come on.

First, Doomfist wasn't (unless we were lied to) intended to be a playable character until the community hyped him up. The primary drive of that hype being - Yep - Terry Crews. We weren't hyped for Doomfist, we were typed for Terry Crews as Doomfist.

I hate how all of this backlash might make Sahr, the actual voice actor, feel. He doesn't deserve it, and I wouldn't blame him one bit for the whole controversy. The guy is a good voice actor, and the Doomfist we have is an 'good', it's just not what we wanted. It's not his fault Blizz put him in this position.

Doomfist fit Terry's bravado perfectly - at least, the fabled titan that the community hypothesized 'Doomfist' to be. Doomfist. Read that name. It's absurd, boisterous, and obnoxious in a wonderfully eccentric way. It's not the name you expect from a stoically spoken philosophical Nigerian man. It doesn't fit, sorry.

Months. MONTHS. Blizzard let the community hype and stew over this for MONTHS of development. They teased us, they 'implied', they played coy. /THAT/ is the biggest problem for me. What did they think they had to gain from, quite literally, betraying the community like that? Why? Why lead us on for months, never offering a definitive answer regarding Terry as Doomfist and discretely implying he would be if they planned to just turn around and give us ... this. It infuriates me. They should have just told us upfront. The shouldn't have lied through omission.

The only thing that could make sense is ... that something happened? Terry WAS intended to voice DF, but his schedule was too tight? He changed his mind? They got in a fight? ... But I don't believe it. Terry is one of the sweetest bastards in showbiz. He WANTED this, there's no way he would have made money or time an issue. It wasn't work, it was play. From what I gathered from his personal vlogs, he wanted to voice the character not only for fun, but to be a part of his son's world, literally. Gaming. I just can't see Terry & Blizzard fighting over it.

This is almost like the character-version of No Man's Sky. Lack of communication and deceit. Blizzard delivered a shell of our hype without the engine, and essentially lied to us. I know I'll get over it, but ... Damn, man.

Man, when I first found out there was a Tombstone reference from McCree I was hyped. Then I listened to the most disgusting mangling of "I'm your Huckleberry" I ever ******* heard. THE VA ADMITTED THEY DID A PROPER DIRECT MOVIE QUOTE WITH THE SAME INTONATION AND **** JUST IN MCCREE'S VOICE, AND BLIZZ DECIDED TO NOT USE IT. They put **** in there for fans of these things without caring what fans want, instead doing what will look best with the uninformed. People would find the line weird and wouldnt want to use it without having seen the movie first because it wouldn't have fit his character that well and they wouldn't know what it means, meaning there would be a chance a fan might feel upset getting it from a box, and they couldn't have that could they? Instead they ruin it for the people who want it to ensure that no one feel's excluded, making the tombstone fans feel betrayed. This Terry Crews **** is just they don't want anyone to associate a loud, violent black man with their products; that would be bad publicity. The press might see him as a violent ****** stereotype, so he must be a super wise philosopher representing some backwater african ******** so they can say they aren't racist when they very much are solely for the fact that they have to make the minority characters super special or super nice. Mexicans? Mega Hacker and a Super Death Ghost. Lesbian? She has wicked time powers. Autist? Super Awesome Inventor bitch. Blacks? Super Justice Robot, Philosophical Fistings, and Friendly Frog DJ. Then let's look at our american characters: Cowboy. Soldier. It kinda speaks for itself when the more boring character designs are slapped on the white men from america and the french lady (Widow's in-game kit is pretty boring even though you can do some awesome stuff with it).

i really hate the very cheap "tribal" aesthetic, i thought we got rid of that with Efi and Orisa.
i wanted him to wear some cool golden armor and have tats all over and look like the legend that he was hyped up to be.
not this african village douche who stole Hanzo's pants and got a cybernetic arm somewhere in a dumpster

Be honest, do you think that Blizzard has nothing for our man Terry? I personally think they do. They probably just didn't want to ruin a character they've worked so hard on making just for an internet meme.